Power BI Weekly

Issue #328 - 7th October 2025

This week, Zoe Douglas is back on the official blog providing a Deep dive into composite semantic models with Direct Lake and import tables, providing an in-depth walkthrough of this new, powerful public preview capability. Also on the official blog this week is the announcement around the Deprecation of Metric Sets in Power BI, which marks the end of a relatively short-lived feature (at least relative to Power BI's lengthy timeline).

Elsewhere this week, and also from the Microsoft team, Emily Lisa has joined Mike Carlo on the Power BI Tips YouTube channel to provide some Quick Tips on Web Modeling, which effectively (at least partially) enables one of the most requested features over Power BI's history - the ability to build Power BI reports on a Mac! Emily performs her whole demo on a Mac, showing the semantic model and report editing tabs working in conjunction for a functional dev experience in the web. Moving on - if you use Trello for your task management, Gil Raviv has shared an article and Open-Source code repository around Analyzing Trello boards in Power BI to get you up and running quickly. Finally, my colleague James Broome has written a couple of blogs around automating pipeline refreshes in a reliable and robust manner from Data Factory, either in Microsoft Fabric Data Factory Pipelines or in Azure Data Factory/Synapse Pipelines.